Diamond Award for excellence in the legal profession
University of the Philippines Portia Sorority 1993
Professional Award in law 1988
University of the Philippines Alumni Association
Most Outstanding Alumna Award 1997
University of the Philippines Visayas
Outstanding Alumna Award 1995
Iloilo High School Alumni Association, Inc
Most Outstanding Alumna 1991
La Paz Elementary School Iloilo City
People's Service Award 1990
University of the East College of Law Student Government
Achievement Award 1989
Angeles University Foundation
Award of Achievement 1988
Centro Escolar University Graduate School Alumni Association
Award of Outstanding Recognition 1988
Iloilo National High School
Brown Visiting Fellow Award 1988
Trinity College of Quezon City.

RELIGIOUS AWARDS:

Award of Excellence in public service 1988
Philippine Council of Evangelical Churches, Inc.
Award of Recognition for public service 1988
Roman Catholic Archbishops and Bishops of Manila
Woman of the Year Award 1988
Catholic Educational Association of the Philippines

GOVERNMENT AWARDS:

Award of Recognition for Best Agency Productivity 1988
Government Productivity Improvement Program Council
Outstanding Ilongo Award 1989 for good government
Iloilo provincial government
Leadership Award 1988
Philippine Ports Authority
Distinguished Achievement Award 1986
National Police Commission
Outstanding Young Woman of Iloilo Award for law 1984
Ilang-Ilang Jaycees and Iloilo provincial government
CIVIC AWARDS:

Woman of Distinction Award 1988
Soroptimist International of Greater Manila
Integrity of Profession Award 1988
Soroptimist International of Quezon City
Award of Distinction 1988
Zonta International of Baguio City
Outstanding Achievement Award 1994
Rotary Club of Cabanatuan City
Award of Distinction 1989
Rotary Club of Roxas City
Outstanding Public Servant Award 1989
Rotary International District 378 in Quezon City
Achievement Award 1991
Iloilo Association of Guam
Golden Cross Achievement Award 1990
10th Battalion Combat Team Peftok
Medal of Honor and Woman of the Year Award 1989
Foundation of Phil-American Medical Society of New Jersey, Inc.
Award of Distinction 1988
Girl Scouts of the Philippines Iloilo Chapter
Distinguished Public Service Award 1988
Barangay U.P. Village Senior Citizens Organization

MEDIA AWARDS:

The 100 Most Powerful Women in the World, The Australian magazine, 1996
(http:// wisdom.psinet.au/~lani/100mpw.html)
Public Service Award 1991
Pambansang Unyon ng Mamamahayag sa Medya
News Personality of the Year 1988
ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corporation

EMPLOYMENT:

Senator, Republic of the Philippines, 1995-2001.
Senior Partner, Miriam Defensor Santiago Law Office
President and founder, People's Reform Party
Chairman and founder, Movement for Responsible Public Service (MOVERS)
Opinion columnist, "Gadfly," Today, 1994.
Professorial Lecturer, College of Law, University of the Philippines, l976-88
Secretary of Agrarian Reform, l989. First female to hold this post.
Chairman, Presidential Agrarian Reform Council Executive Committee
Commissioner of Immigration and Deportation, l988-89.
First female to hold this post.
Member, Board of Directors:
Public Estates Authority, 1988-91.
Philippine Retirement Authority, 1988-89.
Ninoy Aquino International Airport Authority, 1988-89.
Land Bank of the Philippines, 1989.
Opinion Columnist, Philippine Panorama l976-78; l985-88.
Presiding Judge, Regional Trial Court, Branch l06, Quezon City, l983-87.
Highest case disposal among l2 new RTC judges in Metropolitan Manila
in the first year of the national judicial reorganization,
l983.
Legal Consultant, Philippine Embassy, Washington, D.C., l982.
Legal Consultant, University of the Philippines Law Center, l98l-83.
Legal Officer, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Geneva, Switzerland,
l979-80.
Special Assistant to the Secretary of Justice, l970-80.
Professor of Political Science, Trinity College of Quezon City, l97l-74.
Opinion Columnist, Philippines Daily Express, l972-75.
Member, Board of Censors for Motion Pictures, l977-79.

EDUCATION:

Doctor of the Science of Law (Barbour Scholar and DeWitt Fellow), University
of Michigan, l976.
Requirements (except publication), fulfilled
in six months, with "A" average.
Doctor of Laws, honoris causa Centro Escolar University, l989.
Doctor of Laws, honoris causa Xavier University, Ateneo de Cagayan de Oro, l989.
Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa University of San Agustin, l989.
Master of Laws (DeWitt Fellow), University of Michigan, 1975. With "A" average.
Master of Arts in Religious Studies (cand.), Maryhill School of Theology, Quezon
City
Bachelor of Laws, cum laude University of the Philippines, l969.
Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude University of the Philippines, l965.
Finished in 3 l/2 instead of 4 years, with
an average grade in the last semester of l.l.
Valedictorian, Iloilo National High School, l96l. Awardee, All- Around Girl.
Valedictorian, La Paz Elementary School, l957.
STUDENT AWARDS:

(See: "Super Girl at the U.P. Campus," by Lorna Kalaw, Woman and Home, 5 January
l969.)

Visiting Fellow, Lauterpacht Research Center for International Law, 1999
Cambridge University
Paris - Geneva Summer Program in International Law, 1998.
Sponsored by American University.
Summer Program in Law at Oxford University, 1997.
Sponsored by Florida State University.
Summer Program of Instruction for Lawyers, Harvard University, 1996.
Graduate, California Judicial College, University of California at Berkeley,
1985.
In the practical courtroom test, American judges gave her the highest grade
of 33 out of 35.
Fellow, Seminar on judicial writing and caseflow management in the trial courts,
Institute of Judicial Administration, Quezon
City, 1984.
Topnotcher of examination in judicial writing.
Fellow, U.N./UNITAR Programme in International Law, The Hague, Holland, and
Brussels, Belgium, 1978.
Fellow, External Session of The Hague Academy of International Law, Tokyo, Japan,
1978.
Fellow, Academy of American and International Law, Southwestern Legal Foundation,
Dallas, Texas, 1972.

PAPERS DELIVERED:

Guidelines for Reporting by Governments on the Implementation of the Global
Program of Action,
on the Progress Achieved in Meeting the Goals
and Targets for the Years 2003 and 2008,
42nd Session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs,
Vienna, 17 March 1999.
Measures to Eliminate International Terrorism, 53rd Session of the United Nations
General Assembly,
New York, 12 November 1998.
Philippine Intellectual Property Laws, A Review in Light of the GATT,
Conference on International Economic Transactions,
sponsored by the Indonesian Bar Association,
Jakarta, 24 April 1996.
Women Business Lawyers: Meeting the New Political and Economic Challenges in
Asia,
Conference of the Inter-Pacific Bar Association
(Women Business Lawyers' Group),
Singapore, 4 December 1995.
The 'Gap' in the International Protection of Refugees and Internally Displaced
Persons,
Victims of Conflicts, International Congress
on Respect for International Humanitarian Law,
San Remo Italy, 7 September 1995
Toward Radical Humanism in a Meta-Technological Society,
Global Convention on the Restoration of Morality
and Humanity,
Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea, 5 September
1995.
Asian Perspective: The Promotion of International Refugee Law as a Factor in
Conflict Prevention,
19th Roundtable on Current Problems of International
Humanitarian Law,
San Remo, Italy, 31 August 1994.
What Does the Law Say?, Symposium on Equipping Southeast Asian Women Managers
for the 90's,
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 6 March 1991.
Corruption Prevention Strategies in Developing Countries, Keynote Speaker,
Fourth International Anti-Corruption Conference,
Sydney, Australia, 13 November 1989.
CONFERENCES AND PROGRAMS:

International Relations, 2nd ed.
Christianity Versus Corruption, Political Theology for the Third World
At the Turn of the Century, National Policy Issues in the Philippines
Cutting Edge, The Politics of Reform in the Philippines
Where Angels Fear to Tread, Politics and Religion
How to Fight Election Fraud
How to Fight Graft

Literature

Inventing Myself, An Autobiography
A Frabjous Day and Other Stories
The Miriam Dictionary

B. PERIODICAL ARTICLES:

The Visiting Forces Agreement in Constitutional and International Law,
25 Integrated Bar of the Philippines Law 134
(1999.)
Toward Radical Humanism in a Meta-Technological Society,
Proceedings of the Global Convention on Restoration
of Morality and Humanity (1995.)
Philippine Intellectual Property Law: A Review in Light of the GATT, 70 Phil.
Law Journal 17 (1995.)
Fighting Philippine Corruption, Proceedings of the Fourth International Anti-Corruption
Conference (1989.)
Some Issues of Immigration Law in a Developing State, 10 Michigan Journal of
International Law 251(1989.)
"CID: The Philippine Experiment in Fighting Graft," 1 Career Executive Journal
2 (1989.)
Family Reunification for Refugees: The Philippine Context, 2 Lawyer's Review
2 (1988.)
"Arrest and Search: Guidelines for Policemen," 6 Criminal Justice Journal 32
(1986.)
"The Supreme Court Applies 'Clear and Present Danger:' But Which One?" 60 Phil.
Law Journal 57 (1985.)
Criminal Procedure in the Juvenile Justice System, 4 Criminal Justice Journal
31 (1984.)
The 'New' Equal Protection, 58 Phil. Law Journal 1 (1983.)
Identifying the Political Offender, 56 Phil. Law Journal 395 (1981.)
"Promotion, Dissemination, and Teaching of International Refugee Law:
Towards a New International Social Order," 55
Phil. Law Journal 139 (1980) (co-author.)
"Humanitarian Law in Armed Conflicts," 54 Phil. Law Journal 188 (1979.)
"Procedural Aspects of the Political Offence Doctrine," 51 Phil. Law Journal
238 (1976.)
The Archipelago Concept in the Law of the Sea, 49 Phil. Law Journal 315 (1974.)

MEDIA COVER STORIES:
(Partial List)

FOREIGN MEDIA:

Quotable, Time, 20 July 1992, at p.15.
Showdown: Was the Election Fair?, Newsweek, 25 May 1992.
Help Wanted, Time, 25 May 1992.
The Lady and the Star, Asiaweek, 17 May 1992 at p. 38.
People Power II, Time, 11 May 1992.
Move Over Ross, US News and World Report, 4 May 1992.
Top Gun, Asiaweek, 4 August 1989.
The Iron Lady of Asia, Asia Magazine, 25 June 1989 at p. 45.
People, Asiaweek, 5 May 1989.
Manila Reformer Attacks Graft Culture, International Herald Tribune, 27 May
1988 at p.4.
Fighting the Culture of Corruption Day by Day, New York Times, 26 May 1988.
Manila's Graft Busters Score Some Hard-won Gains, Newsweek, 23 May 1988, at
p.13.
Tough Job, Tough Lady, Asiaweek, 1 April 1988, at p.14.
People, Time, 18 April 1988.